Nevis particle physics administrative cluster This page is obsolete. The complexity and failure modes of HA clusters was too much for a small site like ours. This...
Nevis particle physics administrative cluster This is a description of the organization of the administrative computers on the Nevis Linux cluster . The emphas...
Nevis Applications Server The students and teachers at Nevis require the use of many common programs: ROOT, CERNLIB, Geant4, and so on. It would be a waste of di...
August 2009 System Upgrades There's only a two week "window" in which I can perform these upgrades with the least impact on the Nevis research groups. General p...
Nevis Linux Cluster Automount This page describes how automount is used at Nevis to link systems on the cluster. The naming scheme for automount directo...
As of Nov 2021, this service is experimental. The Time Machine backup is located on a Synology NAS server whose operation, at least for this purpose, can be flake...
Details of running condor at Nevis Warning signs If your condor script or program does any of the following, it's a warning sign that your job might crash (or wo...
Nevis Certificates The notes on this page are now obsolete. Columbia University now provides SSL certificates for its department without charge. We've switched to...
Particle/Nuclear physics computing at Nevis Labs The following links will provide you with information on the computer operations and services available. (Some of...
Nevis particle physics administrative cluster configuration Archived 20 Sep 2013: The high availability cluster has been set aside in favor of a more traditional ...
Glossary Some TLAs and definitions to help you get started. (What's a "TLA"? Look it up below.) The terms are not in alphabetical order; they are roughly in ord...
IMAP file switch This page discusses moving your IMAP mail files to the Nevis mail server. If you use POP instead of IMAP, you can ignore this page. Note that th...
Nevis Linux Cluster Overview The Nevis Linux Cluster may seem a bit confusing at first. It's actually several smaller clusters linked together. Each working gro...
Nevis Mail The Nevis mail domain is nevis.columbia.edu. When you are given an account on the Linux cluster, a mail account is established for you with the same na...
Mail Server Upgrade 15 Aug 2016 I propose upgrading the Nevis mail server on Monday, 15 Aug 2016, at 12:45PM Eastern Time. If all goes smoothly, the mail server w...
Nevis Networks and Firewall Restrictions This web page contains a discussion of the Nevis network environment, including some of the traffic restrictions imposed ...
Nevis Obsolete News Items Where old status reports, news items, and links go to die. Obsolete wiki pages These topics are no longer relevant. They're here just i...
Basic diagnostics for the high availability cluster Archived 20 Sep 2013: The high availability cluster has been set aside in favor of a more traditional single b...
Nevis Printing This page describes some basic commands related to printing on the Nevis Linux cluster . How to configure printers on your laptop If you connec...
Nevis Mail and the Columbia UNI Nevis Labs and Columbia University have two completely separate e mail systems. This page discusses your choices on how to connec...
Nevis UPS Management This page describes how Uninterruptble Power Supplies ("UPS") are monitored at Nevis. There's also a web page on which you can see the curre...
Nevis Anti Virus Policy This web page describes our security precautions against viruses infecting the Nevis systems. See our SpamAssassin page for anti spam meas...
Wireless routers Access The Nevis particle physics group maintains several wireless routers throughout the upper portion of the Nevis site. They are all protecte...